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The Tomb of Marie Laveau: In St. Louis Cemetery No. 1
This guide to Marie Laveau and the family members, friends, and strangers interred in her famous tomb features the first known statement to appear in print of Marie Laveau’s own words as to her age and condition of health that was taken in a deposition by a Justice of the Peace on February 24, 1873.
Carolyn Morrow Long is a collage artist, photographer, researcher, and writer. Author of Spiritual Merchants: Religion, Magic, and Commerce (University of Tennessee Press. 2001); A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie LaVeau (University Press of Florida, 2006) and Madame Lalaurie: Mistress of the Haunted House (University Press of Florida, 2012).
